Stop Accidents: America Needs Manpower
Accident-prevention poster: a uniformed police officer with a clenched fist holds an unconscious young man in his arm, with a dark car at the right edge, under the headline 'Stop Accidents'. The injured body and the officer's stern face carry the fear-appeal, and the police uniform and American Legion seal lend authority to a manpower message.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Legion, War Transportation Conservation Program; distributed by National Conservation Bureau
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
American Legion, War Transportation Conservation Program. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1815 (NAID 515494).
Text on the object
STOP ACCIDENTS America Needs Manpower WAR TRANSPORTATION CONSERVATION PROGRAM AMERICAN LEGION [seal: AMERICAN LEGION, US] Distributed by NATIONAL CONSERVATION BUREAU [partly faded in the dark band; repeated in white at lower right] [imprint:] Litho. in U.S.A. [imprint:] Distributed by NATIONAL CONSERVATION BUREAU
